Learning from Bill Whittle

Bill Whittle is a talented teacher. That’s not how he holds himself out, but he has an obvious gift for exposition. In the video below, from David Horowitz’s Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach earlier this month, Whittle offers political advice whose shrewdness I doubt, but not the underlying teaching.

Whittle urges Republicans and conservatives to stand up for what we believe in while expressing doubt that Republican politicians “believe our own philosophy. The GOP leadership…are victims of Stockholm syndrome.” I think the bigger problem by far is our occasional inability to explain persuasively why we believe what we believe. It’s not a deficiency that hobbles Whittle, as one can see in this entertaining video.